Edward C. Corrigan

{{Short description|Canadian racehorse owner}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Edward Corrigan

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| birth_place = Saint-Jean-Crysostome,
Canada East

| birth_date = {{birth date|1843|05|24}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|07|04|1843|05|24}}

| death_place = Kansas City, Missouri,
United States

| resting_place = Mount Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri

| occupation = Racetrack owner, racehorse owner, breeder, trainer

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| known_for = "Master of Hawthorne"
1884 American Derby
1890 Kentucky Derby

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Edward C. Corrigan (May 24, 1843 - July 4, 1924) was a Canadian-born racetrack proprietor, racehorse owner/breeder and trainer in American Thoroughbred racing whose New York Times obituary called him a "once powerful turf figure".{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1924/07/05/archives/edward-corrigan-dies-at-age-of-82-master-of-hawthorne-once-powerful.html |title=Edward Corrigan Dies At Age 82 |work=New York Times |date=1924-07-05 |accessdate=2019-06-14}} It, The San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Examiner and other U.S. newspapers regularly referred to him as the "Master of Hawthorne" for founding Hawthorne Race Course in Cicero, Illinois, in 1891.

Corrigan was the 1890 Kentucky Derby winner's owner and trainer{{cite web |url=https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/kentucky-derby-winners |title=Kentucky Derby Winners |publisher=Churchill Downs Incorporated |date=2019-06-16 |accessdate=2019-10-27 |archive-date=2016-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804130319/https://www.kentuckyderby.com/history/kentucky-derby-winners |url-status=dead }} and in a 1911 article on Derby history the Daily Racing Form called him "the man who at one time controlled more racing property and owned a greater stable of horses than any other turfman of his time."{{cite web|url=http://digital.chipublib.org/digital/collection/examiner/id/8224/ |title=Corrigan "Broke" Loses Racetrack |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1909-05-20 |accessdate=2019-06-16}}{{broken link|date=February 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1910s/drf1911043001/drf1911043001_1_4 |title=Successful Trainers in Kentucky's Foremost Race |publisher=Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives |date=1911-04-30 |accessdate=2025-02-13}}